Invitation to LMMA Side-Event / Where's your LMMA?
Dear DLISTers,
First, I'd like to invite all of you to participate in a half-day side event about Locally Managed Marine Areas (LMMAs) on October 28th at the upcoming WIOMSA symposium in Mombasa. The purpose of the event will be to bring together LMMA managers, practitioners, academics, and supporters to discuss the growing movement of LMMAs in the WIO region and to develop collaborative tools (perhaps including a network) to allow for greater collaboration and information sharing.
Secondly, in preparation for this event, I need your help in putting together a comprehensive database of LMMAs in the WIO area. I've already gathered quite a few data points, but I know there are a lot more out there. Please have a look at the list below and reply to this message or send me an email (shawn|at| blueventures |dot| org)
Thanks in advance!
Country LMMA Name
Kenya Kuruwitu-Vipingo marine area
Kenya Bureni
Kenya Kanamai
Kenya Tradewinds
Kenya Tiri (Nyari)
Kenya Msambweni
Kenya Mkwiro
Kenya Shimoni
Kenya Kibuyuni
Kenya Majoreni
Kenya Vanga
Kenya Jimbo
Kenya Wasini
Kenya Mkokoni
Kenya Pate Island (Lamu)
Madagascar Nosy Ve Androka
Madagascar Maromena/Befasy
Madagascar Beheloke
Madagascar Itampolo
Madagascar Ambohibola
Madagascar Nosy Ve
Madagascar Ranobe
Madagascar Soariake
Madagascar Velondriake
Madagascar Belo Sur Mer
Madagascar Barren Isles
Madagascar Ambodivahibe
Mauritius SEMPA
Mozambique Vamizi Island
Tanzania Kiweni
Tanzania Ras Mkumbuu
Comoros Mohéli
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Dear Shawn,
Thank you for the invitation to the LMMA seminar at the WIOMSA conference. I hope I will be able to attend.
I find it interesting to see your list of LMMAs from the WIO region (I copy them here again in case someone missed the list). I know some of these places through the work we have done with DLIST. In fact two of our demo sites are mentioned in your list - Mohéli in Comoros and Ras Mkumbuu in Pemba (Tanzania). I honestly didn't know that Ras Mkumbuu was considered to be a LMMA... What does your records say people are managing there and how? The are falls within the large Pemba Channel Conservation Area (PECCA), managed by the Ministry of Fisheries, but I didn't know they had some kind of community management initiative there.
I hope you will get more feedback and additions from the rest of the DLIST community.
Frida
Kenya Kuruwitu-Vipingo marine area
Kenya Bureni
Kenya Kanamai
Kenya Tradewinds
Kenya Tiri (Nyari)
Kenya Msambweni
Kenya Mkwiro
Kenya Shimoni
Kenya Kibuyuni
Kenya Majoreni
Kenya Vanga
Kenya Jimbo
Kenya Wasini
Kenya Mkokoni
Kenya Pate Island (Lamu)
Madagascar Nosy Ve Androka
Madagascar Maromena/Befasy
Madagascar Beheloke
Madagascar Itampolo
Madagascar Ambohibola
Madagascar Nosy Ve
Madagascar Ranobe
Madagascar Soariake
Madagascar Velondriake
Madagascar Belo Sur Mer
Madagascar Barren Isles
Madagascar Ambodivahibe
Mauritius SEMPA
Mozambique Vamizi Island
Tanzania Kiweni
Tanzania Ras Mkumbuu
Comoros Mohéli
LMMA list
Hi Frida,
Thanks so much for the response. This is exactly the kind of feedback I'm looking for.
I don't know much about Ras Mkumbuu, only that it was suggested to me by a colleague in Kenya as including a participatory approach to local communities. That normally does not imply local management, but I've been trying to paint with as wide a brush as possible on this project at this point so as to get as many people involved in the discussion as possible.
A similar case is Mohéli, Comoros, which to my knowledge was set up as part of a large UNDP-funded project, funded by UNDP but with a lot of local participation.
Perhaps it would be an interesting and useful discussion for us to have here on the D-list about what exactly local management and LMMAs are. For the purpose of the directory, I'm going to keep them on the list until we (here on the D-list and at the side-event) can come to consensus on who we all want to be included in the discussion.
Also, as a final note. I want to add that since this posting, I've gotten info about the following additional LMMAs
Madagascar Tahosoa (SW)
Madagascar Antongil (NE)
Madagascar Mistio - Tsarabanjina (NW)
Madagascar Ankivonjy (Bay de Russes, NW)
Tanzania Chumbe Island (again- maybe not strictly and LMMA since it's an uninhabited, private island. On the other hand, it employs local guards and works closely with local communities)
Shawn
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Thinks for the invitation,
I would like to participate in the discussion on Octobre 28th, but how do I? I am based in Maroantsetra, Madagascar and I will not travel to Mombasa.
I look forward to hear from you,
Papa Cyrille
Side-event
Hi Cyrille,
Great to hear from you and to hear of your interest in the event. You make a fantastic point.
I think the best way that you and anyone else who is interested in the event but who can't travel to Mombasa to participate is to keep watching the D-LIST and weighing in on local management issues here.
So Cyrille and friends- what do you think of local management in the WIO? Here's some started questions to get us all thinking?
Why has LMMA development flourished in Madagascar and Kenya and not in other places, like Mozambique, Tanzania, Comoros? (Or are there local management efforts there that I'm just not aware of?)
Academic and NGO institutions can sometimes be data and information hoarders, afraid of plagiarism and focuses on the original ownership of ideas. Do we need to break WIO institutions out of these patterns in order to succeed? How?
In the Pacific, community exchanges have been identified as a primary best practice for encouraging community buy-in and healthy competition. Do WIO communities want to share information? What are the major barriers? How can support organisations overcome these challenges?